Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I would.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  For some of the things that we have a cooling-off period of one year for, comparatively internationally that might be a little short. You might see two years for it. You might see five years for it. I haven't seen longer than five years.

Information & Ethics committee  I saw in Commissioner Dawson's report that she is suggesting a merger of the code for MPs and the code for ministers. I can see why, in the sense that, if you're a minister, you're both an MP and a minister at the same time. We've dealt on a number of occasions with this issue of

Information & Ethics committee  The cooling-off period of five years in the Lobbying Act, as far as cooling-off periods go, seems to be on an international scale about as long as I've seen generally. There are some jurisdictions that don't have cooling-off periods at all, and you kind of wonder why. The five ye

Information & Ethics committee  Well, most of the codes try to do the same things. Most countries are very concerned, for instance, with the period when someone leaves a minister's office and goes back to the private world. How do you negotiate that relationship? How do you go from being someone who's on the in

Information & Ethics committee  That's right, yes. Exactly.

Information & Ethics committee  I think I know what you're getting at. I don't know of any countries that are better than we are at handling that. For the most part, the focus is on the investigations that do find something. The result is public and everybody reads the same report. I understand what you're sa

Information & Ethics committee  It's been mostly the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., in depth. There's been a general comparison to OECD countries, but not as in depth. Most of the comparison would be with the U.S., the U.K., and Australia.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. I'm going to be a little bit more general in my comments. We're talking today about the Conflict of Interest Act applying to ministers, parliamentary secretaries, ministerial staff, ministerial advisers, deputy ministers, and other Governor in Council appointees. The